A controversial secularism law in Quebec is heading to Canada’s Supreme Court – but the outcome will impact much more than religious expression in Canada, legal experts say.
The case has the potential to test national unity and the balance between courts and elected officials.
“This case is probably going to be the most important constitutional case in a generation,” said Christine Van Geyn, executive director at the Canadian Constitution Foundation.
A female novelist has criticised the appointment of a trans woman to represent an endometriosis charity, comparing it to a white person claiming to speak for black people.
Amanda Craig, who has published nine novels and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2021, spoke out after Steph Richards was named as the parliamentary engagement officer for Endometriosis South Coast.
Endometriosis is a chronic and painful gynaecological condition in which cells similar to those in the lining of the uterus grow in other parts of the body. It affects one in ten women in the UK.
“We are touchingly prone to mistaking our models of reality for reality itself, mistaking the strength of our certainty for the strength of the evidence, thus moving through a dream of our own making that we call life…we are simply not capable of processing the full scope of reality. Our minds cope by choosing fragments of it to the exclusion, and often to the erasure, of the rest.” – Maria Popova/The Marginalian
Great words, hey? All part of the human condition. All of us suck, in this regard, at some time or other. Best practice, as a human, is to just become cognizant of this trap we all fall into.
It is even easier to fall into the trap when surrounded by like-minded or sycophantic people, one’s that don’t challenge much. In other words, politics.
h/t handy n handsome
An “anti-Semitic” art exhibition with drawings allegedly showing Jewish people eating babies was seemingly promoted by a Labour council.
The Drawings Against Genocide exhibition at an independent gallery in Margate, Kent, features hundreds of crudely-drawn pictures that critics claim contain anti-Semitic tropes.
It is the work of Matthew Collings, 70, formerly one of the country’s leading art critics, who said the art was “about raising consciousness about hell” and that “Israel is the pure encapsulation of it” through its actions in Gaza.
In December 2021, Everton Downey stabbed his girlfriend Melissa Blimkie 15 times in a stairwell at a shopping mall in Burnaby. She died. Downey was convicted of second-degree murder. In February, the British Columbia Supreme Court sentenced him to life in prison, the minimum sentence set out in the Criminal Code. The Crown sought no chance for parole for at least 15 years. But Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes decided on 12 years instead, in part because of “mitigating circumstances of his background,” as described in his Impact of Race and Culture Assessment (IRCA). The time to parole was reduced because of Downey’s experience of being Black.
A fire bomb attack on ambulances belonging to a Jewish volunteer service is being investigated by counter-terror police.
Four ambulances belonging to a Jewish volunteer service have been set on fire in an antisemitic attack outside a London synagogue.
Four emergency vehicles in the Hatzola Northwest’s fleet were firebombed at around 1.40am on Monday morning on Highfield Road in Golders Green.
Let me begin by quoting the brilliant Mr. Bean, AKA Rowan Atkinson:
“To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.”
Let’s get on with critiquing the world’s most troublesome religion. As is our right and obligation.
President Trump announced Monday that the US will not attack any part of Iran’s power and energy infrastructure for five days after Washington and Tehran engaged in “very good and productive talks” over the weekend about ending the three-week-old war.
“I am please [sic] to report that the United States of America, and the country of Iran, have had, over the last two days, very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East,” Trump wrote, without elaborating.
In Havana on Friday, Cuba’s deputy foreign minister, Carlos Fernández de Cossío Domínguez, argued that Canada should maintain the commercial relationship with Cuba that has made it the country’s largest foreign investor after Spain.
“Since 1972, it has maintained the largest flow of visitors to Cuba. It is an important relationship,” said de Cossío, who once served as Cuba’s ambassador in Ottawa.
“There are important trade relations. There is foreign investment…. Despite the fact that we do not have a coincidence in all the political and international positions, we have always known how to solve our problems, our differences, and work with them based on dialogue and based on mutual respect.”
Now you know…cus I just learned too! 😊 pic.twitter.com/VE8S2t1gCn
— Field Marshal of the Han Dynasty (@General_Oluchi) March 21, 2026
An Air Canada passenger plane smashed into a rescue truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport late Sunday — killing two pilots and hospitalizing 41 others in the horrific crash that obliterated the front of the jet and forced the major travel hub to close for most of Monday.
Emergency vehicles swarmed Runway 4 at the Queens airport after a regional jet landing from Montreal struck a rescue truck responding to a separate incident just before 11:40 p.m.
Horrific images showed the front of the commuter plane obliterated and tilted up in the air, with debris and cables hanging from the mangled cockpit.
OMDG. 😳@fancypants_s https://t.co/JwsbrS3p9E
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) March 23, 2026
WTF? @fancypants_s https://t.co/YryjIri541
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) March 23, 2026
h/t All who sent this in. This happened at 11:40 last night, I hit the hay at 11:30 because today is “New Fancoil Day” an all day affair I am told.
Cuba’s power grid collapsed on Saturday leaving the country without electricity for a third time in March as the communist government battles with a decaying infrastructure and a US-imposed oil blockade.
The Cuban Electric Union, which reports to the Ministry of Energy and Mines, announced a total blackout across the island without initially giving a cause for the outage.
The union later said the blackout was caused by an unexpected failure of a generating unit at the Nuevitas thermoelectric plant in Camagüey province.
BREAKING: Hasan fires back at criticism for staying in a five-star hotel during his “humanitarian aid” trip to Cuba—blames U.S. policy.
“The government makes it illegal for us to stay where we want in Cuba. We have to stay in five-star hotels.” 🤣
pic.twitter.com/h2Rj6mHE8Q— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) March 22, 2026
THE WORLD NEEDS TO SEE THIS 🇨🇺
Members of the VIP flotilla of Pablo Iglesias and Hasan Piker throw food at Cuban children to dance while they record videos for their social networks.
The man recording is saying, how disrespectful is taking advantage of the misery of the Cuban… https://t.co/hJv9T5Ae7B pic.twitter.com/QNe5dlGWCY
— Reynier de la Torre (@ReynierDeLaTor1) March 22, 2026
"I no English please." 😒
Then you shouldn't f***ing be here. 😠 https://t.co/1S0LWHPEoe
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) March 22, 2026
h/t Auntie Polly
Despite community efforts to feed the city’s youngest residents, the percentage of children using the Saskatoon Food Bank hasn’t declined in the last 18 years that Laurie O’Connor has worked there.
About 40 per cent of the food bank’s requests for hampers are made on behalf of children, according to O’Connor, the food bank’s executive director.
“That number really hasn’t fluctuated much in those two decades. So whether or not we can respond to the need hasn’t made that big of an impact on child poverty,” she told CTV News.
If you ever wondered what goes on in a classroom of a diploma mill, here’s a good example. Time to close all of them!
📍 Canadore College, North Bay, ON pic.twitter.com/B3fMRiXkty
— sammy 2.0 (@Sammy_canada2) March 22, 2026
